The topic this Wednesday October 4, 2017 is U=U, the letter from the CDC;

CDC: “Effectively No Risk” of Sexual HIV Transmission if Undetectable

In recognition of the 2017 National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NGMHAAD), which is marked annually on September 27, the CDC released a letter that highlighted the latest HIV statistics related to gay and bisexual men.

From the letter: “Scientific advances have shown that antiretroviral therapy (ART) preserves the health of people living with HIV. We also have strong evidence of the prevention effectiveness of ART. When ART results in viral suppression, defined as less than 200 copies/ml or undetectable levels, it prevents sexual HIV transmission. Across three different studies, including thousands of couples and many thousand acts of sex without a condom or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), no HIV transmissions to an HIV-negative partner were observed when the HIV-positive person was virally suppressed. This means that people who take ART daily as prescribed and achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner.”

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